Spaghetti No Junction ! International road transport in 1986
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- 3 trucks DAF 3600 ATi from AR-GS International Transport, are making the journey from UK to Milano Italy via Cherbourg, Mont Blanc Aosta back in 1986
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That 3600! 😍. One of the best trucks DAF ever made.
Definitely 💪🏻
That DAF looks like a manta group B rallye car! What an awesome truck!
Thanks for posting this Ferdy.
Back in the 90's I was doing some Italian work, got back to the yard one day and my boss said GS had been on the phone could I get down to their yard and drag a trailer to Rome and back. (it wasn't really a request ) Go Sunday lunch, the running money will be in the usual place... I got to ARGS and was told that was my trailer in the corner.... Old 40 foot tilt, it had the appropriate number of wheels and tyres for the axles. One of their lads told me, out through Dover, Swiss then through to Rome. don't bother with the weigh ticket, he'll have it sorted, I'll see him on the steps at Dover.
It took me about 5 mins to get the legs up, and the tail light on the truck were about 6 inches lower than they usually sat ( Swiss had a 28 ton transit limit) .... I got to Dover and the ARGS driver met me at the weigh bridge, gave me a ticket he already had, and told me to just to drive to customs to get a seal. We got the 5 pm boat to Dunkirk, and drove straight to Basel on the Swiss border. The only time we stopped was to take the fuse out and put it back in. I must have been around 38 ton... We got to Basel about 3 in the morning, any one done that run will know what sort of pace we were going.
The border opens at 5am but we had a bit extra, so we didn't go through till 8 ish, I was crapping it all the way through Swiss especially on the steep climbs. It was so obvious that I wasn't anywhere near 28 tons. Como about 1 pm, Quick stop near Modena, then straight into Rome...... Stop and do some fishing...... Yeh right....
"if anything can go wrong it will"....exactly. BTW, the 3600 Space Cab was the best cab of the 80s.
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Brilliant, thanks for uploading!
Die 3300'er und 3600'er DAF's waren damals die schönsten LKW's die ich gefahren habe.👌👍🇩🇪👍👌
Che emozione! Rivedere la vecchia strada statale per il Tunnel del Monte Bianco tratto da Aosta a Courmayeur, al minuto 26, con tutti quei TIR! ero un ragazzo ma ricordo una gita fatta nell'aprile del 1982 in Vespa su quelle strade, che paura con quei bestioni che mi sfioravano! Bravi camionisti! Un tempo meraviglioso!
Good 👍
what fantastic memories of the good old days. my names gary manchester i was 24 in 86 i worked for davies turner .trafford park ,
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing your video.
I'm 70 now but i did italy spain and every other country in Europe 8hr days weren't heard of,more like 15hr days except when clearing customs only rarely did you get too eat in a restrant and for the life of me i can't think why they went via cherbourg.wish i had a job on there firm.it must have taken a week just to get to italy.
I thought the same. Why go to Cherbourg?
nice trucks from the time when DAF was still an independant truck producer.
What fantastic memories of the good old days when we had to push to get the job done.
I was 24 in 86 and my 1st trip was in a transcontinental down to Spain. I was as green as grass paper work at border crossing i done it there and back in week i was hooked never looked back. After a few months with the transcon i was on my way to Italy with a new iveco turbostar 420 i done the Italian run for 12yrs on and off. I run with the ARGS boys back then on some trips. Why was the brits always the lost to leave italy on a Friday night at midnight after collection on wheels and then wait for groupage to top off the 1 hit to the tunnel to do customs Saturday morning. After that 1 hit home and being able to run on a Sunday if going home.
So now I'm now a London black cab driver and home every night . I do miss them days and getting weekended was even great fun.
So if any old truckers get to read this i wish all well and your back door is clean and green.
Be lucky take care out there.
GaryLondon there’s only one Gary who loves a one hit home that I know 😉
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Hi Kevin you knew that was me that's when I worked for your dad and barry. How are you? How things going now your dad has passed away all good I hope mate?
Give me a call if you see this.
Take care
@BOXING STONER
Hiya mate
Thank you for taking the time to reply to my posting. Unfortunately all the firm's I was running with back then 98% of have gone now. Jobs was much easier to get then everything was word of mouth.. I would love to go back in a truck over the water but have no idea how to find a job in the trucking industry now? I would enjoy covering holiday leave but my days of loading and stripping out tilts are long gone. I think anything that goes through the back doors would be perfect. You take care mate and hope you do get to read this after Brexit probably back on T2...cheers Gary
@BOXING STONER
Hiya
Cheers for the reply...what company do they work for ? so I can email them.
GaryLondon Hello mate I’m all good thanks, what are you upto? You had a black cab didn’t you?? Do you remember the time when you flew out to Italy when someone had gone home? We left Pisa airport and except for diesel we didn’t stop until we got too Calais!! We was in that gutless Mercedes with the stupid gearbox!!
Hehe. What a blast of the past! Loved watching this!
I remember their trucks used to park in a yard off york way in Kings Cross. I was only a kid but it really stood out.
Thanks for uploading this. I too have it on VHS but haven't had a machine to play it on for years. It was also the push I needed to become an international truck driver. Great to watch this again, those DAF's are awesome.
Thank you for the upload 👍
I remember owning this on vhs
Jesus the narrator. Straight out of the BNP!
Remember seeing this at Birtley Truckstop in the 80s. The opinion of most drivers was it was a lot of BS!
Daf 3600 space cab what a beautiful beast
Two different ones used in the video. Suddenly appeared minus the sun visor
I'm retired now, but I had 43 years driving trucks, including 26 on International. This video ,I found a bit antiseptic, it was never that ordered or that clean. My last few years were doing reefer work to Spain and Portugal and it was always push push. From what I have seen recently, I got out of it at the right time, it just isn't the same any more. Still think they were the best years of my life.
Fantasy film Fred and yes Pat did tell a story or two..
As you know it was Crack on to Macon at the very least and often much (much) further at most times.
All they did was eat haha. Can't we see the version with the wire on or fuse out and grubby jeans
Cool, I've got this video up in the loft somewhere. I ordered it via an advert in one of the trucking magazines (TRUCK, Truck + Driver or Trucking International ?) in the late 1980's.
I was at school at the time. Always wanted to be a driver after watching this !!!
Thanks for posting.
Yes i watched this while I was at school. My old man had an old daf 3600 when he first started continental. Then he got daf95 soon as they came out. All my time off during school holidays I spent going away. Good old days
TheRockgod23 same with me rocker love these oldies this is a great channel for them and I always have a hobby watchin the history of the trade which I'm proud to be apart of its richness and history love my job wouldn't do anything else . KEEP ON TRUCKIN BROTHER💪👍
I remember the trucks, I drove for R. B. Welch at the time, I am sure I ran with one of them down to Reims etc before the motorway was built. John Whyte.
lovvv vintage trucking
36 years ago.. amazing how UK enjoyed freedom and prosperity for so long.. and moment i come here chaos..
I really want these times of older trucks!!!
I worked for this company. Drove the wagon and A frame drag unit on a c plate 86 . Company moved out kings cross down the Brighton road. Still going I believe
I Wonder why the video of Spaghetti No Junction Was NOT long enough? NOR why did they NOT do more filming in Milan? Did You Work at the time they put the video together?
Mooiste daf ooit gemaakt
nice video👍
I drove to Italy every week for 13 years then moved to Italy driving an Italian truck.
My dear friend Tufty Briars drove for ARGS taking antiques.
Poor Tufty passed away last year
Regards to you all
Harry Baker
Cool vid! Hello from 🇺🇸
Some great shots and photography of some lovely DAF's but if you notice the Space cab truck was actually two different trucks as the registration keeps changing...
The sun visor missing raised my suspicion. A third one used in the thumbnail
Qualcuno di voi caministi degli anni 80, si ricorda della strada Locarno Verbania? Strada sul Lago Maggiore, con tante curve e molto stretta e tanti TIR che arrivavano dal Tunnel del San Gottardo e deviavano per Ascona, Brissago, Verbania, Arona e poi autostrada per Milano da Sesto Calende...che viaggi avventurosi!
WSI do a great model of that DAF drawbar in 1:50 scale.Quite expensive though😎👍!
Despite the clinical feel of this program compared to many realities of continental haulage it is very true what is said at 21:20.
Yeah we had the vhs of this
Yes I have it ! Somewhere ...
Going fishing while being on the job - those were the days...
Its slavery now, especially container work. And now with corona fukt up. Im 1 year truck driver and i dont feel like im one. Its like working in a factory but instead of that i have 9 hours a day steering wheel in my hands. I drive in Belgium. Im Gonna try international in the future. I hope i can get some fun out of thuis...
Such a big difference with truck driving today, or shall i say eastern europe underpayed 2 in a cabin racing across europe men ? Driving under forteign liscence wich don’t need all the diploma’s !
Really this film has both its good and bad points,first of all it is good to see how the job begins at the office and journeys through spectacular French scenery and villages like on a coach tour BUT the video is not really long enough being as it is only just about half an hour long (Ought to have been at least a 60/90 minute video) and the conversations while eating breakfast on the ferry crossing should have been relevant to what the work they were doing at the time which is the actual trip down to Italy like the pros and cons rather than how things were done in the past in America,Canada and Australia regarding trailer set-ups. I also don't think that criticizing the way French truckers drive is going the right way to introduce someone to the world of truck driving on the continent and I admit that the standards of truck rest stops in Europe in the mid-80s were something we needed to follow as far as food and hygiene were concerned. I am NOT a truck driver myself but have been really into trucks since 1981. I notice that on "Spaghetti No Junction" there was hardly any filming taking place in Italy nor Milan itself, the video ends just over the border from France at a service area after just crossing from Mont Blanc. These things apart,it is otherwise a very good video with an equally as good documentary.
Does anyone know anything about a film about trucking from England to Spain in the late 80s in a Scania on the lines of "Spaghetti No Junction"?
You haven't got the video called "On Your Bike" have you? It was a guy in a Iveco Turbostar hauling for Raleigh Bikes, Nottingham to Germany, sailing from Hull. It'd be great to see that again.
i used to have them both on VHS, would love to see On Your Bike again if anyone has it
As truck driving jobs go, that seems like it was the dream job! As for the facilities in Europe being better that the UK, it's still true today, that drivers are treated like tramps in Britain!
Is this company still on the go . I have seen there trucks on the road but not for many years love the guys white jacket lol trendy or what like haha
I keep a nice clean truck but could never wear 2 days running white jacket and light coloured trousers , I’m a muck magnet !
I like how the space cab daf starts out as "d" reg,yet in France it's a "c" plate???
The job is now wrecked
You don’t see too many professional drivers like that nowadays, all wearing clean jeans, and nice company jackets. Nowadays, the majority of what you see, are, flip-flops, sandals, sweat, pants and dirty shirts, lol! Pride and professionalism, for the most part, has gone out the window a long time ago.
Why does Pat’s truck keep changing? One minute he’s driving a 3600 without advisor and the next he’s driving. A 3600 with advisor. Did one of those trucks break down during production of this video?
Is it me or does the lead driver keep changing his truck if so why and how
How come these drivers a so clean? DO these trucks have trouser press & ironing board?
1:33 bet they’ve gone down now she’d be about 70 today 😂
Us Aussies are mad :P
Great video although far too relaxed (For the camera and producers I imagine) Brings back Great memories though..My company Botrans/Veho Ltd did a few Sub contract Jobs with ARGS (GRAHAM )was a decent bloke and a great raconteur .. From the age of 10 yrs old (1980) I used to do this same Run (London to Italy) With our truck drivers during the school summer holidays.. It was much more chaotic and rushed than this video portrays..
Wonder what happened to these drivers. My old man was a lorry driver drove many years in Europe. Much better gig he reckons. Retired now. I remember he had a DAF in the 80s. Great times
Like the old dafs .couldn't pull your socks off though.
1:32 before the curse of political correctness in the U.K.
Nowadays we have GPS, following systems, nasty guys on a thelphone and demand to drive on, no rest, just hurry, everything on time , no the adventure is far gone in 2020
It was better 40 years ago....i was 22 and didnt drive a truck!..lol.
Ah when Europe was Europe and not Eurabia....
I bet the french arnt so customary nowadays.. summat to do with fishing i imagine ;)
Oh.....And l agree.Europe is definitely on the wane👎😔
This might of impressed people in the 80's But not now... Also I bet this company is finished now... closed, defunct...
Wonderful video! But awful commentary... almost chauvinistic.
never in a million years did these drivers work like this in real life. if they did, their companies would be bankrupt within six months. if you were on trip money you drove till you dropped and made a fortune. at the same time,if you were weekended,you spent a fortune in the baghouse,, happy days.